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The Select Board voted on the decision during its meeting on Monday.  Earlier this month, Town Meeting voted in support of giving the Select Board the authorization to take through eminent domain the properties at 12-16 Union St. The vote also authorized the town to take $500,000 from the town’s Capital Stabilization Fund to pay for the land taking.   In June 2018, the town and Howard Fafard, the owner of the Union Street property, came to an agreement that Fafard would donate approximately 4 acres for the public safety building, once certain requirements were met.  The town has spent ...

ASHLAND – The Select Board on Monday plans to change the date of Town Meeting and election for voters to decide if the Public Safety Building project and the David Mindess Elementary School rebuild should move forward. The Select Board plans to change Town Meeting to Saturday, Jan. 23, and the town election to Jan. 27.  Any change pushes both votes back two weeks. The board planned for Town Meeting to be Jan. 9 and the election Jan. 13, according to Town Manager Michael Herbert.   Chairwoman Yolanda Greaves said the board wanted to change the dates because some people may be quarantini...